Yeah. That ship...

It certainly lessens the dread of voting for someone with Clinton’s record.

Not defending him but I think he means after the fact. He gives an example of what he means in the very next paragraph.

Sacred hair? Please go on.

I don’t care about the “appropriation”. In the 70s, the mood was definitely “wear everything”. Nobody Black gave a shit when White people got perms and did Afros. It was all good.

is any case of a white person wearing corn rows appropriation? This kind of confuses me, with people apologizing for getting cornrows while on vacation. I get that it’s a black hairstyle, but it’s also super practical. My hair gets frizzy and hard to manage a lot of the time, and I enjoy braiding my hair in a variety…

It’s not offensive to wear your hair in a style that works for your hair texture. It’s offensive to dread your hair if your hair doesn’t naturally dread. It’s offensive to wear a unique style that’s sacred to another culture. But just making tight braids to keep your hair tamed does not count as harmful appropriation.

How was that appropriation?

I thought demeaning objectification was also part of the point?

I don’t think a problem has to be of equal magnitude for a double standard to exist.

Right. Shitty behaviour is shitty behaviour. We can’t use any individual person’s reaction to being catcalled as the metric for whether it’s wrong or no.

Agreed. He’s implying that there’s a double standard (which there is) and neither party should be subjected to cat calling (agreed) and that with women they often feel physically threatened (they do). So, I don’t know what’s with Bobby’s criticism.

Actually, I think he’s completely woke. It is a double standard. No woman or man should be subject to catcalling.

I personally would only count consensual encounters.

They could have just as easily been talking about ordering Subway, agreeing to a wine tasting in Vermont, voting for Trump, getting a colonic, forgoing your child’s vaccinations, asking if you think Cosby is innocent, getting your opinion on the moon landing hoax, inquiring if you have a black friend, gauging your…

I, also, did not see the message and automatically think it meant rape.

Huh. I read it completely differently. I read it as don’t let someone bully you into doing something you aren’t sure about. If you want to say no to the D, then for gosh sakes, say no.

Concurred in entirety. The request for censorship troubled me, and the one book is such a tiny drop in the bucket I don’t think it would help anyway. But talking with the child about the messaging was a great way to handle it! She can apply that lesson to everything.

She was denied tenure at Chicago, got it at Princeton but then left in a huff after getting into a spat with ‘self-aggrandizing’ Cornel West and deciding that not being promoted to full professor almost a decade early was the last straw, burnt every bridge possible on the way out of MSNBC, and now takes a gratuitous…

She is not coming off well with all this.